# Accident 20150115000302A: Cessna 150L, Stow, MA, January 15, 2015

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 15, 2015, 15:27 local time
- Place: Stow, MA
- Airport: Minuteman Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Collision: Collision on the ground
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.4606° N, 71.5178° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.4606&lon=-71.5178&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5443Q, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N5443Q-2018-05-24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 150L (registry code 2071826, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-150l) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental 0-200 series (registry code 17020, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-200-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 150L
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 1
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor, private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 3,000 total, 160 in this make and model, 150 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB ERA15CA101](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA15CA101) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20150115000302A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

CFI AND STUDENT HAD BEEN PRACTICING PATTERN WORK, AND CFI WAS CONSIDERING SOLOING THE STUDENT. THEY MADE A FULL STOP LANDING AT 6B6 AND FUELED THE AIRCRAFT WITH APPROXIMATELY 14-15 GALLONS OF FUEL. BOTH WING SUMPS WERE SAMPLED PRIOR TO FIRST FLIGHT, BUT NOT THE SECOND FUELING; FUEL WAS CLEAN AND VISIBLY FREE OF WATER. THE TWO BOARDED AND DEPARTED TO DO SOME MORE PATTERN WORK. CFI HAD WANTED TO OBSERVE A GO-AROUND PERFORMED BY THE STUDENT ON THIS SESSION.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WAS AT THE CONTROLS, THE AIRCRAFT WAS AT APPROXIMATELY 20-30 FEET WHEN SHE FLARED THE PLANE AND REDUCED POWER. THE STUDENT MADE A FLARE THAT WAS TOO HIGH, BALLOONING.^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ NOTICED THE FLAIR WAS TOO EXCESSIVE AND INSTRUCTED HER TO NOSE IT OVER SLIGHTLY AND PUT POWER BACK IN. HE TOLD HER ?GO-AROUND? THE STUDENT PITCHED UP STEEPLY, AT THIS POINT IT WAS TOO LATE AND THE AIRCRAFT ENTERED A STALL AND THE CFI TOOK OVER, BUT WAS TOO LATE TO KEEP THE AIRCRAFT FROM STALLING AT A HEIGHT OF APPROX. 30-40 FT IN THE CFI?S ESTIMATION. THE CFI COULD NOT RECALL WHAT PART OF HIS AIRCRAFT IMPACTED FIRST. THE FLAP SETTING AT THE TIME OF THE GO-AROUND WAS 40 DEGREES. NO LOSS OF POWER WAS OBSERVED BY PIC. THE AIRCRAFT IMPACTED THE GROUND OFF THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF RUNWAY 03 GOING NORTH. THE AIRCRAFT SLID OR BOUNCED ANOTHER 30 FEET WHERE THE PROPELLER IMPACTED THE BACK END OF ANOTHER CESSNA 150 (N707CF) SHEARING THE TAIL OFF FORWARD OF THE VERTICAL FIN. DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT N5443Q WAS SUBSTANTIAL TO INCLUDE THE NOSE GEAR BEING TORN OFF, FIREWALL BENDING AND SUBSTANTIAL ENGINE MOUNT DAMAGE. ADDITIONAL DAMAGE SEEN THROUGHOUT THE AIRPLANE WITH BENDING AT TAIL BOOM.

## Other aircraft in the event

- N707CF, Cessna 150M: no report for this aircraft; [N707CF](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N707CF) is registered now

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB ERA15CA101](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA15CA101), Jan 15, 2015: Cessna 150L (N5443Q), Stow, MA, substantial damage. Probable cause: The flight instructor's delayed remedial action in response to the student pilot's improper go-around, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its critical angle of attack, experiencing an…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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